You Know Your In The Malaysian Jungle When…

  1. 1.     Roosters start crowing at 2AM
  2. 2.     You get a leech while bathing in the river (Miranda)
  3. 3.     All the men go running into the jungle with spears to catch a wild boar
  4. 4.     20 geckos climb your walls at night time
  5. 5.     You see your teamate go into the bushes with just a chair frame and you know its to poop with (Matt)
  6. 6.     You never feel dry because you sweat so bad
  7. 7.     You Wake up with s swollen face and rash all over your body and don’t know why (Lauren)
  8. 8.     You Have chickens run into your “bedroom” and jump into your bags
  9. 9.     You Eat flowers and bark off trees
  10. 10.You can swing off vines into the river
  11. 11.You see a 2 year old using a machette as a toy
  12. 12.You wash your clothes and bathe at the same time
  13. 13.Diner consists of fish, chicken, duck, board or turtle and ALWAYS rice.
  14. 14.You get pinched by a scorpian during group worship (Lauren)
  15. 15.Your head itches and you don’t know if its from dirt, dandruff or bugs
  16. 16.You see a family of 5 on 1 motorcycle
  17. 17.You start communicating with grunts and hand gestures because ther is no translator
  18. 18.A 62 year old man is sitll having babies
  19. 19.Using a fork seems foreign because you eat everything with your hands
  20. 20.The ants and centipedes are the size of texas
  21. 21.You run out of water and start drinking from the stream…hoping you will be OK
  22. 22. Bamboo can be used for anything and everything
  23. 23.Your lips swell up for days from eating raw mango (Miranda and Karen)
  24. 24.A 47 year old has 13 children and 27 grandsons
  25. 25.You have to teach english even though they can’t understand what directions you are trying to give them
  26. 26. Your bathroom is 5 steps outside of your “home”…AKA…the tree line
  27. 27.You dont wash your hair for 5 days straight
  28. 28. 90degrees feels like a cool day
  29. 29.The men only acknowledge you after you go logging with them
  30. 30. You have to clean your nolgene with bleach because it starts to smell like a fish bowl
  31. 31. You can either choose the head or tail of the fish they serve
  32. 32. Kids watch you from all angles while you bathe
  33. 33. 5 year old girls carry around their 3 day old sister everywhere
  34. 34. Spilling things doesn’t matter because you can just sweep everything through the bamboo floors
  35. 35. You have to chase your soap down the river everyday
  36. 36.  You feel like your teeth are going to fall out from all the sugar in your drinks
  37. 37. Your legs look like you have chicken poz but its just mosquito bites.
  38. 38. You pull a fish spine out of your mouth and havn’t eaten any fish
  39. 39.Hanging a mosquitio net makes you feel like a princess in a palace
  40. 40.You have to take a 15 minute uphill walk just to get to the begining of your work day
  41. 41.Babies get dropped in your lap and then pee on you
  42. 42.Slap-jack is the only way to interact with the pastor
  43. 43.You don’t where deodarant just to keep the mosquitoes away.
  44. 44. You look down at your bowl and realize there are small fish heads all through your vegetables
  45. 45. You let a 14 year old boy drive you on his motorcycle while wearing a sarong, no helmet and no shoes.
  46. 46.Walk through a rubber tree forest
  47. 47.Let someone pierce your ear with a needle and string (caleb)
  48. 48. Watch children climb a vine like they are half monkey
  49. 49. Put garlic in your water to keep mosquitoes away
  50. 50. After you leave the jungle the first thing you do is find some oreos and icecream and soda.
                                      
                                    Leech (Miranda)                                                      Bad Rash (Lauren)
 
 
Ear Pierced (Caleb)